Gmail for iOS: One simple update makes it awesome

Google updated Gmail for iOS today with one simple update that might just have won me over.

Now, you can move between messages without returning to your inbox simply by swiping left or right. It’s the sort of innovation that is incredibly obvious — in 20/20 hindsight — but just as incredibly useful and time-saving when you simply want a quick overview of what’s going on in your inbox.

The other update? An Apple iOS mail-like ability to select multiple messages in the inbox and apply actions like delete, archive, move, or mark as unread — another time-saving and efficiency-increasing change.

It’s tremendously un-geeky of me, I know, but I’ve never been able to really get into Gmail online. Increasingly, however, I’ve been using Google’s iOS Gmail app.